Published date: 11 October 2022

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 25 October 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Analysis services - 71620000

  • Survey analysis services - 79311300

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£40,000

Procurement reference

tender_319100/1113332

Published date

11 October 2022

Closing date

25 October 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 November 2022

Contract end date

24 February 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

This procedure can be used for procurements below the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Cefas wishes to commission a contract to undertake the analysis of seabed imagery (still images and video) collected from Fulmar MCZ in 2021.

- Analysis will be undertaken as set out in imagery specification provided for this work ('Imagery Spec', included as part of the tender package) and adhering to the NMBAQC Epibiota interpretation guidelines (Turner et al, 2016).

- The online annotation software BIIGLE will be used to annotate video and still images as described in the analysis specification.

- Video tows are to be segmented into areas of continuous broadscale seabed habitat type greater than or equal to 5m along transect distance. Sea-pen and burrowing megafauna analysis transects will be additionally analysed using frames taken from the video.

- A minimum of 10% of the videos and stills should be re-analysed for QA purposes by the contractor and reported on.

- An external QA (10% reanalysis) will be undertaken in advance of final data delivery. Following award of the contract, and dependent on the evaluation scores they achieved, unsuccessful bidders may be invited to undertake the independent external QA aspects of this project. Please indicate in your tender if you wish to be considered for this work.

- Any deviation from this methodology should be approved in writing by the Cefas project officer.

- The successful tenderer will produce an analysis report.

- Substrate and taxonomic image reference collections are required

- A start-up meeting will be held with the winning tenderer within a week of the
contract being awarded. During the start-up meeting Cefas will provide guidance on use of BIIGLE in MPA projects if needed.

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About the buyer

Address

Pakefield Road
lowestoft
NR33 0HT
England

Email

procure@cefas.co.uk

Website

www.cefas.co.uk